Director since: 2019

• Committee
  • Executive Compensation and Management Resources
• Key Contributions
  • Organizational leadership, management and risk oversight, and management experience as president emerita of Cornell University
  • Research and technology experience as a computer scientist with expertise in artificial intelligence as a professor of computer science, information science, and linguistics
  • U.S. Government service as a former member of the advisory committee for the National Science Foundation’s Computer and Information Science and Engineering Division

Dr. Pollack, 66, is president emerita of Cornell University, where she was also professor of computer science, information science, and linguistics. She took office in 2017 and retired in June 2024. From 2000 to 2017, Dr. Pollack held various positions at the University of Michigan with increasing responsibility, including dean of the School of Information, vice provost for academic and budgetary affairs, and finally, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs. Dr. Pollack is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Pollack has served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, and has also been president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, a member of the technical staff in the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International, a member of the advisory committee for the National Science Foundation’s Computer and Information Science and Engineering Division, and a member of the board of directors of the Computing Research Association. Dr. Pollack also served on the Steering Committee of the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, the academic partnership between Cornell and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology at Cornell Tech. She is a former board member of the American Association of Universities. She is currently a Trustee of ITHAKA. In 2022, Dr. Pollack was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. In the spring of 2025, she was named a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College.